‘Test and Treat’ is Being Used to Tackle HIV. Why Not TB?
TB is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Not everyone who gets infected with the bacterium will get sick. ...
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The Big 3 Infectious Diseases Besides COVID-19 Scientists Are Trying to Find a Vaccine For
More than 28 million people around the world have now contracted COVID-19, and more than 900,000 people have died. Research ...
Senate Funding Bills Recognize, but Fall Short of Needs for Critical Infectious Disease Responses
The following statement released on Sept. 19 from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is published here in its ...
As Rates of STDs Rise in America, HHS Seeks Input on Developing Federal Action Plan
To help inform the development of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Federal Action Plan, HHS seeks input from stakeholders on ...
2nd Case of Possible Remission of HIV-1 Reported in London
Last week a London team led by Ravindra Gupta reported in Nature a high possibility of remission of HIV/AIDS in ...
Pediatric Nephrologists Awarded $3M NIH Grant for APOL1 and HIV Synergy Research
For more than 25 years, Children's National pediatric nephrology program has studied the relationship between HIV and renal diseases in ...
NHPC 2019 – National HIV Prevention Conference
The 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC) will be held March 18–21, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. The National HIV Prevention Conference ...
The Fading Influence of PEPFAR
PEPFAR’s success makes it hard to recall how unexpected and unprecedented the plan originally was. That the United States, led ...
AIDS Runs Rampant, Threatens Entire Indigenous Population of Warao
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles infecting a human H9 T cell, colorized in blue, turqoise, and yellow. Credit: NIAID ...
NIAID Virology Quality Assurance Program
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Division of AIDS (DAIDS) is seeking proposals from qualified offerors to ...
NIAID Seeks Support Services for Infectious Diseases Research
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is competing a support contract for scientific, professional and technical expertise ...
HealthLink Ukraine: USAID Funding for HIV Programs in Ukraine
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Regional Contracting Office in Kyiv, Ukraine is seeking applications from ...
CNN to Debut ‘Unseen Enemy’ Special on Pandemics
UNSEEN ENEMY, about the potential looming crisis of disease pandemics, will debut as a CNN Films broadcast for a World ...
RFP – Nonhuman Primate Virology Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking proposals from organizations capable of conducting quantitative viral RNA ...
The U.S. Military Contribution to Global Fight to End AIDS
Rick Shaffer, Ph.D., director of the DoD HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (DHAPP) at the Naval Health Research Center. Credit: Regena Kowitz, ...
RFP – Clinical Research Services Sought by NIH Vaccine Research Center
The Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting for clinical ...
Quantum Dots Light the Way for New Ebola and HIV Treatment
A research team led by the University of Leeds has observed for the first time how HIV and Ebola viruses ...
Centuries Later, Black Death Offers Clues to Combat Diseases
The Black Death, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, swept Europe in the 14th century eliminating up to half of ...
31 Grants Awarded for HIV, Tuberculosis Research
The National Institutes of Health and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) are awarding 31 grants to U.S. and ...
Unearthing New Antivirals
A team of biologists from San Diego State University has developed a platform for identifying drugs that could prove to ...
